2011 Antimatter Film Festival: Official Lineup

By Mike Everleth ⋅ October 12, 2011

The 14th annual Antimatter Film Festival in Vancouver, BC, Canada is an epic 9-day event of expanded cinema performances, feature-length documentaries an a ton of experimental short films and festivals.

On the expanded cinema front, Antimatter welcomes retrospectives of Kerry Laitala, who will be presenting a selection of her 3D light and motion experiments; and Roger Beebe will screen a series of multi-projector performances.

7:00 p.m.:Songs From the Nickel, dir. Alina Skrzeszewska. This documentary reveals a little-known neighborhood of Los Angeles called “The Nickel” where people with hardly a nickel to their name congregate.
Screening with:the fall, dir. CJ Brabant

9:00 p.m.:And Again, dir. Adele Horne. This documentary examines the lives of former residents of the small town of Playas, New Mexico who now pretend to be terrorists and victims for Homeland Security simulation training.
Screening with:Untitled, dir. Keren Cytter

7:00 p.m.:The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye, dir. Marie Losier. A portrait of industrial music pioneer Genesis P-Orridge and his late wife, Lady Jaye, who subjected themselves to an art project in which they attempted to become a singular pandrogenous entity, Breyer P-Orridge.
Screening with:Whoever Whatever, dir. Daniel McKernan

9:00 p.m.: “Livor Mortis: Expanded Cinema Performance by Trinchera Ensamble and Eric Ostrowski”
Described as “electronic emanations from Mexico’s narco wars: the unrelenting vortex of violent media imagery generated by this ongoing conflict has resulted in a no man’s land of residual haptic memory.”